The debate between the Date Palm and the Tamarisk: translation

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1-10The Tamarisk opened
his mouth and spoke. He addressed the Date Palm: "My body ...... the bodies of
the gods. (The reference is to statues of tamarisk wood.) You grow
your fruits but someone places them before me like a maid approaching her
mistress. You do not provide the measuring vessels. You are ...... minor crops,
but I ....... Your attendants ...... before me for you."

11-19In his anger the
Date Palm answered him. He addressed his brother the Tamarisk: "You say: "If
people build daises for me and beautify them too, they certainly do not swear
by the gods before clay (?)." -- You may be the body of the gods in their
shrines and people may name with a good name the daises of the gods, but it is
silver that can pride itself as the overlay of the gods. ......, describe your
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